Rockford girl reported kidnapped found safe and sound

ROCKFORD — A 7-year-old girl who was initially reported abducted Thursday morning was found safe and sound at Lewis Lemon Elementary School.

There was a report that a young girl was running from a man who forced her into a red car in the 400 block of Irving Avenue before 8 a.m.

But what appeared to be a man kidnapping a girl, is now believed to have been a step-father and step-daughter embroiled in a family squabble.

Witnesses to what had looked like an abduction including a school bus driver and others, were taken by police to Lewis Lemon to confirm that the girl who is at the school was indeed the girl they thought they saw being kidnapped.